Don't Drink Less, Just Drink Smarter

What Space Does To Our Bodies: An Interactive Guide, The Secret Second Lives Of Pizza Huts, The Drinking Man's Guide To Surviving the Morning After, You'll Wish This Was Just Pubic Hair, 9 Outrageously Extravagant Food And Drink Items You Can Buy At Costco The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 31, 2013 RISKY BUSINESS What Space Does To Our Bodies: An Interactive Guide nasa.gov You'll think twice about your dream of going to space after you play around on this website. FROM HUT TO HOVEL The Secret Second Lives Of Pizza Huts theatlanticcities.com The company has discontinued the design and changed its business model to emphasize delivery and other types of outlets. But the distinctive silhouettes of those buildings remain one of the most reliable and recognizable features of the suburban landscape, even if a lot of them are no longer Pizza Huts. WELL-HUNGOVER The Drinking Man's Guide To Surviving the Morning After gq.com Your resolution should not be to drink less — just smarter. IF ONLY THEY WERE CRABS You'll Wish This Was Just Pubic Hair digg.com You don't need to speak Spanish to understand what happens next. GO FOR THE TP, STAY FOR THE CAVIAR 9 Outrageously Extravagant Food And Drink Items You Can Buy At Costco foodbeast.com Where do you go if you want to buy both high quality caviar and a one year supply of food in case of a zombie apocalypse? Costco, of course. Read more on Digg.com → INSIDE THE BALL A glimpse inside the Waterford Crystal Times Square Ball panel installation for New Years Eve 2014. Credit: Matt Boster/Sipa USA/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Al-Qaida Is Obsessed With Recording Its Most Minute Expenses

Al-Qaida Is Obsessed With Recording Its Most Minute Expenses, I Think I Had Dinner With A Cult, An illustrated Tribute To The Inventor Of The Etch A Sketch, The World Braces For Retirement Crisis, The Best Internet Hoaxes Of The Year The Daily Digg Monday, December 30, 2013 $0.60 FOR CAKE Al-Qaida Is Obsessed With Recording Its Most Minute Expenses bigstory.ap.org The manager of the modest grocery store thought he was about to get robbed. He rushed to lock his till and cowered behind the counter. Instead, the al-Qaida commander gently opened the grocery's glass door and asked for a pot of mustard. Then he asked for a receipt. NEVER TURN DOWN A FREE MEAL I Think I Had Dinner With A Cult xojane.com At 17, I went to a bizarre dinner in rural Mexico with my boyfriend's family and one of their colleagues. It was ... weird. But was it a cult? I might never know. MAY HE REST IN ETCH An illustrated Tribute To The Inventor Of The Etch A Sketch digg.com Christoph Niemann creates an illustrated tribute to André Cassagnes, the Etch A Sketch inventor who died on January 16, 2013. THE GLOBAL BOOMER BUST The World Braces For Retirement Crisis talkingpointsmemo.com A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. THIS IS PROBABLY A HOAX The Best Internet Hoaxes Of The Year npr.org From fake tweets to feigned poverty, the Internet was ablaze with hoaxes in 2013. Read more on Digg.com → ALWAYS HAS CLEAN UTENSILS AT HIS PLACE Etibar Elchiyev poses with 53 metal spoons magnetized to his body during an attempt to break his own Guinness World Record for "Most spoons on a human body" in Tbilisi on December 28, 2013. Credit: VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What We Buy

Does Reading Actually Change The Brain, The Police Car Of The Future, Surviving Life In A '70s Sex Commune, The Coolest Science Of 2013, In GIFs, Amazon's Best-Selling Holiday Items Reveal The American Id The Daily Digg Friday, December 27, 2013 HE DIDN'T HAVE A BEARD WHEN HE STARTED Does Reading Actually Change The Brain futurity.org After reading a novel, actual changes linger in the brain, at least for a few days, report researchers. IT'S WATCHING YOU The Police Car Of The Future online.wsj.com To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city's streets—but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn. THANK GOD DISCO IS DEAD Surviving Life In A '70s Sex Commune thedailybeast.com Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, "My Fathers, My Mother and Me." IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL CLICK The Coolest Science Of 2013, In GIFs blogs.smithsonianmag.com This year, we saw dissolving electronics, flying meteors, gravity-defying chains and rotting pineapples. AMERICANS STILL BUY MIRACLE-GRO? Amazon's Best-Selling Holiday Items Reveal The American Id qz.com Amazon just wrapped up a successful holiday shopping season. It sold 36.8 million items on Cyber Monday alone, or 426 items per second. The company also revealed the most popular holiday purchases in a range of categories. Some of the items are kind of surprising. Read more on Digg.com → #NOFILTER Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) stand at attention during morning colors as the ship is moored in Funchal, Portugal, for a port visit. Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Billy Ho/Released Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

That Soft White Underbelly

Why Do Animals Have Soft White Underbellies?, The Best Apps For All Your New Devices, Did Dinosaurs Get The Flu?, The Tricorder Is Real (Kinda), Google Punishes Rap Genius By Making Site Unsearchable The Daily Digg Thursday, December 26, 2013 SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO RUB Why Do Animals Have Soft White Underbellies? slate.com The phrase "soft white underbelly" describes the anatomy of a broad spectrum of animals ranging from sharks to amphibians to birds and even some mammals. Why is the most notorious biological vulnerability on Earth so ubiquitous? HOW TO GET FULLY-LOADED The Best Apps For All Your New Devices theverge.com Maybe it's a new PlayStation 4, or an iPhone 5C, or the Windows tablet you've been not-so-subtly asking for all year. You've unwrapped it, torn the box to shreds, and turned it on. Now what? DINO-SORE Did Dinosaurs Get The Flu? popsci.com Investigating diseases of prehistory. WE'RE STUNNED The Tricorder Is Real (Kinda) bits.blogs.nytimes.com When Walter De Brouwer puts his head to something, he can produce single-handedly what usually takes several hospital machines and labs. His single hand, it should be said, holds a small and promising device with which Mr. De Brouwer, the co-founder and chief executive of Scanadu, hopes to remake medicine. HATE THE PLAYERS AND THE GAME? Google Punishes Rap Genius By Making Site Unsearchable searchengineland.com If you go to Google and search for "rap genius," rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page. Instead you will find links to their Twitter account, Facebook page, Wikipedia profile and stories like this about them being penalized by Google. But you won't find rapgenius.com on the first page. Read more on Digg.com → THAT OTHER SAVIOR A giant balloon with the shape of Superman participates in the Christmas parade in Acapulco, Guerrero state , Mexico, on December 25, 2013. Credit: PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Easy Box

The Cardboard Box Just Got Way Better (Seriously), Our Plan To Rescue Dennis Rodman From A North Korean Prison, The Year In Digg, How Russia's Once-Richest Man Hid His Last $170 Million From Putin, I Signed Up For Health Care And All I Got Was This, Well, I'm Not Really Sure Yet The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 24, 2013 EASY BOX The Cardboard Box Just Got Way Better (Seriously) digg.com Every year, one billion cardboard boxes are produced in the U.S. Every one of them is terrible. These two engineering students have come up with a genius replacement. MISSION: HYPOTHETICAL Our Plan To Rescue Dennis Rodman From A North Korean Prison thewire.com What if, instead of leaving North Korea today, Dennis Rodman didn't make it out and was instead thrown into a prison camp by the country's erratic young dictator Kim Jong-un? And what if two brave bloggers had to save him? DIGGS WE DIGG (SPONSORED BY DIGG) The Year In Digg digg.com In the last year, we here at Digg have posted 21,303 stories, tweeted 25,088 times, and drank over 1,000 beers. But these numbers only tell part of the tale. That's why we've compiled the most noteworthy stats and stories from 2013 into something we like to call, "The Year In Digg." PUTIN THE WOOL OVER HIS EYES How Russia's Once-Richest Man Hid His Last $170 Million From Putin qz.com Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian ex-oligarch who was just freed after 10 years in jail, told journalists at a press conference in Berlin two days ago that he didn't know how much money he had left. Leonid Bershidsky, a columnist for the Russian edition of Forbes, thinks he has an idea. BLACKHOLE MARKET I Signed Up For Health Care And All I Got Was This, Well, I'm Not Really Sure Yet psmag.com One man's attempt to navigate HealthCare.gov. Read more on Digg.com → AND DAVID BLAINE THOUGHT HE WAS SO COOL A woman and a child stand in the "Step into the Void" glass skywalk overlooking the French Alps on top of a 3842-meter peak in Chamonix on December 23, 2013. The installation, which opened to the public after three years of development, is made of three layers of glass and can withstand winds of up to 200kmph. Credit: JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Year In Digg

The Year In Digg, The Ten Most Confusing Car Buttons And Symbols — And What They Mean, What Happens When One Of Your Coworkers Dies, Facebook's Two Faces, Yes, You Can Die From Laughing Too Hard The Daily Digg Friday, December 20, 2013 DIGGS WE DIGG (SPONSORED BY DIGG) The Year In Digg digg.com In the last year, we here at Digg have posted 21,303 stories, tweeted 25,088 times, and drank over 1,000 beers. But these numbers only tell part of the tale. That's why we've compiled the most noteworthy stats and stories from 2013 into something we like to call, "The Year In Digg." 'CHECK ENGINE' MEANS CHECK THE ENGINE The Ten Most Confusing Car Buttons And Symbols — And What They Mean jalopnik.com Every driver has seen a strange dashboard symbol or found an unfamiliar button in their car and wondered, "What the hell is that?" Luckily, we're here to help. A DIFFERENT SORT OF GRIEF What Happens When One Of Your Coworkers Dies thebillfold.com "Mike don't open your e-mails," he says. That's when I notice that our office has a candle in it too. "You need to know," he says, trails off, starts again, "that Colin has passed away." HARD WIRING Facebook's Two Faces technologyreview.com The company says it wants to wire the world. But will it do more than make its own app better? THE LAST LAUGH Yes, You Can Die From Laughing Too Hard theweek.com It's all fun and games until someone ruptures a blood vessel. Read more on Digg.com → THE ROCKETTES LOOK TERRIBLE THIS YEAR Indonesian and Vietnamese sepak takraw players compete in the double team sepak takraw event during the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games in Naypyidaw on December 19, 2013. Credit: YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014